New York man accused of leaving Tinder date for dead on Florida highway in new wrongful death suit

Jennifer St. Clair was killed in on I-95 in Florida around 2 a.m. Friday after she met up with a man she met online. It's believed that her date left her for dead after she fell from the motorcycle they’d been riding. (Handout)

A New York man accused of leaving his Tinder date for dead in the middle of a Florida highway is being sued by the woman’s loved ones.

Jennifer St. Clair was killed in the southbound lanes of I-95 in Pompano Beach, where Florida Highway Patrol said she was fatally struck by multiple vehicles. First responders pronounced her dead on the scene and launched an investigation into how exactly she ended up in the street in the first place.

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In a wrongful death lawsuit filed filed Friday, St. Clair’s family claims Miles McChesney abandoned the 33-year-old server after she fell off the back of his borrowed Harley-Davidson motorcycle during their first date the night of Dec. 6.

According to the suit, McChesney picked up St. Clair at the Ft. Lauderdale home she shares with her parents around 10 p.m. and were later joined by two other couples for a motorcycle ride to a restaurant and bar in Delray Beach.

McChenseny was allegedly impaired when they started the trek back home around 2 a.m. According to the suit he “drank alcohol to the point where he became impaired” and as a result, “carelessly and negligently operated, controlled and/or maintained” the motorcycle so that St. Clair was somehow “expelled from said motorcycled into oncoming traffic.”

Her date stopped — but only briefly — before speeding off without offering her any help, according to the suit. He was reportedly visiting from Schenectady when the incident occurred.

"The cousin and the other motorcycle driver had gone ahead. When they noticed that Jennifer was not on the bike, the cousin pulled over and called 911," the family's attorney, Todd Falzone, said during a press conference Friday. He said McChesney then approached his cousin, who told the dispatcher, "Here he is, forget it" and hung up.

The Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office said Friday that St. Clair suffered multiple blunt force injuries, but her exact cause of death has yet to be determined, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. A toxicology report is also pending.

Falzone added that St. Clair was hit by as many as nine vehicles.

Florida State Highway Patrol, which did not return request for comment, is investigating the fatal incident as a traffic homicide.

McChesney’s attorney released a brief statement to WPLG, declining to provide details in the case.

“I am representing Miles McChesney in regards to a Florida Highway Patrol Investigation,” Russel Cormican said. “This is a very tragic event. And this is all I am going to say about it at this time.”